By default, when Analytics Link creates an Essbase outline with Financial Management data, all Financial Management dimensions and their members are represented in the outline. Analytics Link enables you to customize the Essbase outline so that only the dimensions and members that are relevant to your business needs are represented.
Table 55 describes the 12 Financial Management dimensions (eight system-defined dimensions and four custom dimensions):
Table 55. Financial Management Dimensions
| Dimension | Description |
|---|---|
| Scenario | Set of data, such as Budget, Actual, Forecast, and Legal. For example, the Actual scenario can contain data from a general ledger, reflecting past and current business operations. The Budget scenario can contain data that reflects the targeted business operations. The Forecast scenario typically contains data that corresponds to predictions for upcoming periods. A Legal scenario can contain data calculated according to legal GAAP format and rules. |
| Year | Fiscal or calendar year for the data. An application can contain data for multiple years. |
| Period | Time periods, such as quarters and months. |
| View | Various modes of calendar intelligence, such as periodic, year-to-date, and quarter-to-date frequencies. If you set the view to Periodic, the values for each month are displayed. If you set the view to year-to-date or quarter-to-date, the cumulative values for the year or quarter are displayed. |
| Entity | Management and legal reporting structures in your organization, such as region and divisions. Entities can be categorized as base entities (bottom of the organization structure; data is loaded to base entities) or parent entities (which contain one or more entities as children). |
| Value | Types of values stored in an application. For example, the Entity Currency member stores the value for an entity in the local currency of the entity. The Parent Currency member stores the value for an entity translated to the currency of the parent entity. |
| Account | Hierarchy of natural accounts, which store financial data for entities and scenarios in an application. Each account has a type, such as Revenue or Expense, that defines its accounting behavior. |
| Intercompany Partner | Intercompany account balances. Financial Management can track and eliminate intercompany transaction details across entities and accounts. |
Custom1 Custom2 Custom3 Custom4 | Dimensions associated with accounts. These dimensions enable you to specify additional details, such as products, markets, channels, or balance sheet movement. For example, a custom dimension for products associated with Sales and COGS accounts enables you to track sales and cost detail by product. Financial Management creates four custom dimensions. |